Semyon Bogdanov

Semyon Ilyich Bogdanov (17 August 1894-12 March 1960) was a Marshal of the Armored Troops of the Soviet Union during World War II.

Biography
Semyon Bogdanov was born in 1894 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire. He joined the Red Army in 1918 after serving in World War I, and he was a veteran of the Russian Civil War, Polish-Soviet War, and the Tambov Rebellion, and he was sentenced to two years in prison during the Great Purge. Bogdanov served in the Soviet 30th Armored Division at the start of World War II, but in September 1943 he was given command of the 2nd Guards Tank Army, seeing action in battles from the Battle of Moscow to the Lublin-Brest Offensive, taking part in Operation Bagration and the push into Romania in 1944. After the war, Bogdanov commanded the armored and mechanized forces in East Germany, and in December 1948 all of the armored forces of the Soviet Army. He died in 1960.